The Green Border

"The Green Border" is Agnieszka Holland's black-and-white drama following the refugee crisis at the Poland-Belarus border. Maja Ostaszewska plays a psychologist drawn into the border chaos, carrying much of the film's emotional weight in a performance built on restraint rather than any kind of display. The archive holds 2 scene clips of Ostaszewska showing brief exposed beats that stand apart from the film's grim tone. They're rare enough in the runtime that they catch the eye precisely because the rest of the film keeps her covered up and in character.